SOLUTION: In a semiconductor company's quality control test, a machine found that 12 out of a sample of 324 computer chips were defective. How many of the 3659 such chips that the company ma

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Question 1200605: In a semiconductor company's quality control test, a machine found that 12 out of a sample of 324 computer chips were defective. How many of the 3659 such chips that the company makes each month would you expect to be defective?
Answer by ikleyn(52824) About Me  (Show Source):
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Write a proportion as you read the problem

    12%2F324 = x%2F3659.


From the proportion, find x = %2812%2A3659%29%2F324 = 135.82.


ANSWER.  You may expect 136 - 136 defective chips, assuming that the rate is the same.

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